Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over a little country full of scenery, ruins and history which is host to four occupying armies and is surrounded on three sides by Communist states. He has done it by combining American dollars with his Austrian courage and a Viennese belief in the effircacy of prayer, optimism and wine...
Everybody in Austria makes fun of "Poldi" Figl, red-faced, horny-handed son of a winegrower. In the music halls, in cafés all around the Ring, in the Heurigen (wine gardens) of Vienna's cobbled suburbs, Figl's country manners, wine tippling, and his let-it-go-till-tomorrow administration are the butts of the people's jokes (and Figl's). They call him "Leopold the Last," but they love...
Malan lasted only a few weeks in his first pastorate because his wine-growing parishioners failed to understand his urgent demands for prohibition. In his next parish, Graaff Reinet, a wool-growing town, he encountered a group of Boer children playing in the gutter with a gang of colored kids. Forty-two years later, as Prime Minister, he told the House of Assembly: "It was thus that the seeds of apartheid were planted in my mind...
...professionally, "c'est très important" Aside from its stars, the Michelin guide has special symbols for restaurants-five pairs of crossed forks and spoons for a de luxe place, one for a "plain but good" restaurant. The number of tiny bottles indicates the quality of the wine cellar...
Died. Dr. Julien Besangon, 90, celebrated French specialist in longevity, who attributed his own long life to "wine, women, and tobacco"; of a heart attack; in the Paris apartment of his longtime friend, Hélène Oliveires, 51, whom he once described as "a woman who asks no questions, and knows how to dress and please...